Editing Brooklyn, Connecticut (section)

==Notable people==

* [[David Low Dodge]], manager of the first cotton factory in Connecticut and one of the founders of the New York Bible Society and the New York Tract Society, was born in town
* [[Waldo Hutchins]], a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] and member of [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] from [[New York (state)|New York]]
* [[Samuel J. May]], minister and supporter of Prudence Crandall's boarding school for African American females<ref>[The right of colored people to education, vindicated : letters to Andrew T. Judson, Esq. and others in Canterbury, remonstrating with them on their unjust and unjustifiable procedure relative to Miss Crandall and her school for colored females https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_right_of_colored_people_to_education,_vindicated_-_letters_to_Andrew_T._Judson,_Esq._and_others_in_Canterbury_(IA_ASPC0005189100).pdf] by Samuel J. May, Minister of the 1st Church in Brooklyn</ref>
* [[Elijah Paine]] (1757–1842), a Federalist U.S. senator from Vermont (1795–1801) was born in town
* [[Adelaide Ward Peckham]] (1848–1944), bacteriologist, born in town
* [[Israel Putnam]], a general in the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] and a legendary figure in his day, had a farm in Brooklyn, where he died in 1790, and was buried in an above-ground tomb in Brooklyn's South Cemetery<ref>Hubbard, Robert Ernest.  ''Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution,'' pp. 196-9, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2017.  {{ISBN|978-1-4766-6453-8}}.</ref>
* [[John Day Putnam]], Democratic member of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]]
* [[Michael Bruce Ross]] (1959–2005) was a serial killer raised on a farm near Brooklyn<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/profile-of-serial-killer-michael-ross-971241|title=Serial Killer Michael Ross, The Roadside Strangler|website=ThoughtCo|date=June 30, 2017|access-date=April 20, 2018|last=Montaldo|first=Charles}}</ref>